“What does it mean,” asks Willie Francois, “to cultivate leaders who are building power inside prison?”
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Women after incarceration
Anthropologist Jorja Leap bears witness to the struggles of women reentering society through programs designed for men.
Who’s doing our dirty work?
Eyal Press looks inside the daily lives of prison workers, drone warriors, and meatpackers.
Why was the apostle Paul in prison so often?
Perhaps for the same reasons people are today.
We are disguising our collective wounds instead of treating them.
This was Deputy Kiosha’s house, and I was in it.
Just because something is legal doesn’t make it morally right.
"It’s easy to think of the border as some remote, far-off place, but the truth is that there are detention centers in nearly every state."
Fiction that makes prisons visible
How three novelists depict the reality of incarceration
Our family reunion in Argentina looked like something straight out of one of Jesus’ parables.
Inventing a voice for Louis Till
John Edgar Wideman counters the official record of Emmett Till’s father with a more empathetic version.
When mercy and justice meet
As we make laws and try to adjudicate justice, we often lose sight of the human faces affected.
Tennessee: poster child for a broken system
A justice system oriented mainly toward punishing offenders can have tragic consequences.
Caught, by Marie Gottschalk
Marie Gottschalk describes an American penal system that has all but abandoned any real attempt to rehabilitate its inmates.